Genre	Drama :: Thriller
Date Released	30 September 1948
Production	FATfilms LLC
Distribution	FATfilms LLC
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Quotes

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[repeated line] Phillipe: Baines!

Baines: It`s a great life if you don`t weaken.

Phillipe: Master Phillipe, we-- we`ve always been friends, haven`t we? Phillipe: No! Mrs. Baines: We were friends last night. Do you remember that secret we had about them? Phillipe: We didn`t have a secret. Mrs. Baines: Oh, you know all about them! You`re not such a child as you pretend to be! You`ve got a nasty, wicked mind and it ought to be beaten out of you!

[first lines] Baines: Good day, sir... In his office there, miss.

Housekeeper #1: Not healthy to be as clean as all that. Housekeeper #2: Anyway, these foreigners like a bit of dirt.

Baines: There`s lies and lies. Mrs. Baines: What do you mean by that? Baines: Some lies are just kindness.

Phillipe: Funny, isn`t it? Julie working for the embassy and all this time she was your niece. Baines: Yes. It`s a scream.

Baines: Give me your handkerchief. It`s things like that give secrets away.

Mrs. Baines: You can keep our secret now? Hmm? Yes?

Julie: What did he say, Phile? Phillipe: "I want my freedom." Just like that. And she went on. Natter, natter. Always nattering. Poor Baines. He did want it so badly. When she comes back, I`ll ask her for my freedom, too.

Policeman: [to Phillipe] Walking in your sleep, were you? Rose: That`s all I was doing.

Dr. Fenton: Death is like a business. It has to be attended to.

Phillipe: We`ve got to think of lies and tell them all the time. And then they won`t find out the truth.

Julie: The truth can`t harm Baines. Don`t you realize he`s innocent?

Baines: There are faults on both sides, Phile. We don`t have any call to judge. Perhaps she was what she was because I am what I am. We ought to be very careful, Phile. `Cause we make one another. Phillipe: I thought God made us. Baines: Trouble is, we take a hand in the game.

Phillipe: Oh, Baines, we must never tell any more lies.

Inspector Crowe: How much easier it would be if everybody told the police the truth in the first place.

Inspector Crowe: Shall I tell you a secret? Phillipe: No!

[last lines] Ambassador: Phillipe! Phillipe! Your mother.

Trivia

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Despite his character`s hatred of Mrs. Baines, Bobby Henrey`s favorite person on set was the actress who played her, Sonia Dresdel.

Although Carol Reed had an outstanding record of working with young actors, he found Bobby Henrey`s short attention span very difficult to cope with. Many of his scenes were played with the young man looking at his favorite grip or electrician, and his performance was pieced together in the cutting room.

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